Inside Europe's energy crisis

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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Talk Show, News, Npr, Daily, On Point

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🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Russia has cut off energy supplies to Europe. It's causing a crisis. How long can Europe hold on? Suriya Jayanti and Tim McPhie join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:29.8	The homes of Europe are quite literally connected to Russia.
0:35.4	Gas flows out of Russian wells into pipelines
0:38.8	and then thousands of miles across borders and under the sea.
0:42.5	It flows into terminals, goes underground
0:45.0	and ultimately gets piped into European homes,
0:48.9	apartments, schools, factories, and power plants.
0:54.4	Now here's the scale of Europe's dependence on Russian energy.
0:59.0	In 2020, more than 40% of EU natural gas imports
1:05.3	and almost 30% of the EU's crude oil imports came from Russia.
1:11.0	Compare that to the United States.
1:13.4	The US has not imported any petroleum gases from Russia since 2019
1:19.7	and only 8% of this country's oil imports originate in Russia.
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